Panel Physician

What Panel Physician does

Panel Physician is a privately held, IRCC-authorized medical clinic headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, that specializes in Canadian immigration medical examinations (IMEs) for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. The clinic operates five physical locations across the Greater Toronto Area — Brampton, North York, Scarborough, Toronto/Etobicoke, and Oakville — and serves individuals applying for permanent residency, work permits, student visas, and visitor visas, as well as a secondary cohort of Ontario drivers requiring medical exams for license renewals. The company employs 11-50 staff including physicians, technicians, and multilingual patient-facing support, and functions as a bootstrapped, founder-operated practice with no external investors or parent company.

The clinic's core technology dependency is the IRCC eMedical system, which Panel Physician uses to securely submit medical exam results electronically to immigration authorities. Service delivery is positioned around a one-location, same-day IME workflow combining physical examination, urine test, blood test, and on-site chest X-ray, typically completed in 60-90 minutes with results filed to IRCC within 5-10 business days. The clinic operates extended hours of 7am-9pm, seven days a week; offers multilingual staff and telephone translation in any language; and supports patient booking via Calendly online scheduling or by phone. An online report ordering portal provides post-visit access to completed medical reports.

Revenue is generated through one-time per-patient fees for IMEs, with tiered pricing ranging from C$150 to C$220 depending on patient age and weekday/weekend timing, plus ancillary charges for blood tests (C$30 for ages 15+) and chest X-rays (C$50 for ages 11+). Payments are accepted in cash or debit only. Distribution is exclusively direct-to-consumer via five physical clinics, supported by SEO-driven website content and an educational blog covering immigration medical exam topics. The business model is highly transactional with no recurring patient revenue, and the company's growth is tied to the volume of Canadian immigration applications and the regulatory framework governing IME providers.

Name

Panel Physician

Legal name

Panel Physician

Website

https://panelphysician.ca

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Panel Physician is a Toronto-based, IRCC-authorized medical clinic operating five Greater Toronto Area locations. It performs Canadian immigration medical examinations and Ontario driver's medical exams for individual clients via direct-to-consumer appointments, IRCC eMedical electronic submission, and multilingual staff support.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Immigration Medical Examination Services

NAICS

Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) (621111)

SIC

Services-Offices & Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine (8011)

akta.pro primary industry

Immigration Support Services (Translations, Certified Copies, Biometrics, Medicals) (THACAKAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Professional & Occupational Licensing Examination Authorities (EDADAFAD)

Keywords

• Immigration medical exams
• Panel physician services
• Driver medical exams
• IRCC eMedical submissions
• Immigration health assessments

Headquarters

HQ city

Toronto

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Immigration Medical Exam Fees: One-time fees for immigration medical examinations charged to patients based on age group and weekday/weekend timing. Additional charges apply for blood tests and chest X-rays where required.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Panel Physician is an IRCC-authorized medical clinic that performs Canadian immigration medical examinations (IME), including physical examinations, blood tests, urine tests, and chest X-rays, with results submitted electronically to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada via the eMedical system. The clinic also provides Ontario driver's medical exams for commercial drivers and senior license renewals, operating five locations across the Greater Toronto Area with same-day appointments, multilingual staff, and one-location completion of all required tests.

Product overview

Panel Physician operates as a medical clinic offering two primary service lines: Immigration Medical Services (IME) and Driver's Medical Exams. The core Immigration Medical Services product includes comprehensive immigration medical examinations (physical exam, blood tests, urine tests, chest X-rays) that are submitted directly to IRCC via eMedical. Same-day complete exams are offered at five GTA locations (Brampton, North York, Scarborough, Toronto, Oakville). An online report ordering service allows patients to request copies of completed medical reports.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Immigration Medical Services (IME) IRCC-authorized immigration medical examination services for individuals applying for Canadian permanent residency, work permits, student visas, or visitor visas. Includes physical examination, urine test, blood test, and on-site chest X-ray, all completed at one clinic location on the same day with electronic submission to IRCC via eMedical.
• Driver's Medical Exams Ontario driver medical examinations for commercial drivers and seniors aged 80+ renewing non-commercial licenses. Includes vision, hearing, physical, urine, and cognitive tests, with results submitted to ServiceOntario or MTO.
• Complete Medical Report Ordering Online ordering service allowing patients to obtain copies of completed immigration medical reports. Includes a Low Price Guarantee on report orders.

Quantifiable outcome

• Medical results submitted to IRCC within 5-10 business days
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Regional players

• MEDCAN: Premium Toronto-based private medical clinic offering executive health assessments, specialty services and screening on a fee-for-service basis. Comparable as a high-touch, multilingual, direct-pay Toronto medical-services operator with strong brand reputation, though serving a higher-income segment.

Broad incumbents

• Appletree Medical Group: Large Canadian multi-specialty medical clinic operator with family practice, walk-in, and specialist services across Ontario, including immigration-related exam offerings. Comparable as a multi-location GTA-anchored private clinic serving immigrant and general patient populations on a direct-pay / fee-for-service basis.
• Lifemark Health Group: Canada's largest network of physiotherapy, rehabilitation, and occupational health clinics with hundreds of locations. Comparable as a multi-site, fee-for-service Canadian healthcare services operator with adjacency to occupational / driver medicals and a similar geographic strategy of dense clinic coverage.

Others

• LifeLabs: Canada's largest medical laboratory network, providing routine and specialty diagnostic testing that includes TB screening and blood tests commonly required in immigration physicals. Comparable as part of the IME service stack — Panel Physician relies on similar lab infrastructure, and LifeLabs is a potential partner or upstream/downstream competitor for the diagnostics layer.

Direct peers

• Passport Health: North American travel and immigration medicine clinic chain offering pre-travel vaccines, immigration physicals and country-specific medical exams (including panel-physician-equivalent services). Directly comparable to Panel Physician on the core offering of in-clinic immigration medical examinations with multilingual, appointment-based service.
• International Panel Physician Association (IPPA) Member Practices: IPPA is the global professional association of which Panel Physician's physicians are members; its member directory lists the actual peer panel-physician clinics offering Canadian IMEs in the GTA and across Canada. These are direct competitors authorized by IRCC to perform the same exam, often with similar one-stop, multilingual service positioning.
• Visa Medicals Canada: Canadian immigration medical exam clinic specifically focused on IRCC panel physician services with multi-location coverage. Direct comparator as an IRCC-authorized IME-only operator competing for the same immigrant patient pool with similar one-stop positioning.
• USCIS-Designated Civil Surgeons: U.S. physicians designated by USCIS perform the closest regulatory analog to IRCC panel physicians — immigration medical exams for U.S. green card applicants. While jurisdictionally separate, the business model (regulated physician performing immigration medical exam, electronic submission to government) is structurally identical and serves as a directional peer for clinic economics.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/panel_physician
• Facebookfacebook.com/profile.php
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/panel-physician-north-york

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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